Authur
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Authur has been given to 2,192 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1951, with 56 recorded.
Babies named Authur, 2006
1 in 565,000
Authur over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Authur?
Authur had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 565,000
- 7 of 3,956,166 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 294,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,745 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Authur sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,745 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Authur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Authurs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Authur was born before 1944 — so the typical Authur is around 81 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 18.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.2%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 877
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (410).
Is Authur rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1951 (56)
- Years since peak
- 74
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.2% average annual change
Spellings of Authur
Authur is not the most common spelling — Arthur is, with 87.1% against Authur's 0.35%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Authur is used
Across 1910–2025, Authur was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 86,911 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 33,333
- 2Alabama1 in 50,000
- 3Georgia1 in 50,000
- 4Louisiana1 in 50,000
- 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 6Texas1 in 100,000
- 7Arkansas1 in —
- 8South Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Authur has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Authur by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Authur
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Authur
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Authur, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Authur
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.